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We told you earlier today that the fun was not going to stop with just a few Windows 8 apps made by some Microsoft BizSpark members. No, we said there would be more on the way. So, here continues our deluge of Windows 8 and Windows Phone apps that you can download and tinker around…

The holidays are here, and that means one thing: you are not going to be doing much work. We hope. But it is a time of the year when you plan on how you are you going to tackle the new year. For some of you that means more fun. For others, that means more…

Many of the startups in our 50,000+ membership roll have asked our team for some advice on social media marketing. Many of the founders ask, “How can I get more visibility for my startup?”; “What are some tricks for rapid social media or viral marketing?” Douglas Crets is the Community Manager for Microsoft BizSpark. He…

Today we bring you a story about the flaw inherent to traditional economic theory, and an inherent human attitude about scarcity that gives the lie to this thinking. We asked Gamification expert and occasional Stanford University lecturer Yu-kai Chou to write a blog post about how scarcity can drive demand. You may remember our conversation…

Here are today’s #BZPitch pitches. When you sign up to Microsoft BizSpark, you are introduced to literally hundreds of thousands of people working on over 50,000 startups. To take advantage of this, sign up. When your application is approved, dive in on Facebook, Twitter, and in LinkedIn. [&lt;a href=”http://blogs.technet.com//storify.com/douglascrets/bizspark-pitches-in-140-characters” target=”_blank”&gt;View the story “BizSpark Pitches in…

In 2011, BetaWorks CEO John Borthwick and his management team gave back $27 million “and then some” to investors, according to a recent TechCrunch Disrupt interview (see below), and then they topped up the tank for another few millions in investment to keep building what is emerging as a suite of media products that sew…

IT is with great pleasure that we bring BizSpark members a live stream of PandoDaily CEO Sarah Lacy’s interview with living legend John Doerr tonight. These always turn out to be great conversations and Microsoft BizSpark fully recommends joining the series to watch these every month in New York or San Francisco. Enjoy!

Startup Weekend and the Startup America Partnership announced today that they will join together to create UP Global, a new organization supporting the creation of vibrant entrepreneurial communities around the world. With generous support from The Kauffman Foundation, the Case Foundation, Omidyar Network, Google for Entrepreneurs, Microsoft and The Coca-Cola Company, UP Global will combine…

Yu-kai Chou is an experienced Entrepreneur as well as a Gamification Consultant & Speaker. He has been a regular speaker/lecturer on Gamification at organizations like Stanford University, Google Inc., The Internet Marketing Conference, Draper Richards Retreat, UCLA, UBC Sauders School of Business and many more. He will be talking with us live on May 2,…

There is something strange and beguiling about startup marketing. On the one hand, you shouldn’t have to do any marketing at all, right? After all, your product sells and distributes itself by being functional, consumer-centric, or specific to the enterprise problem it solves. You shouldn’t HAVE to tell anyone interesting about your product, because all…